Daily Lumina News 070721

Renowned Black journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones revealed yesterday on "CBS This Morning" her decision to decline the University of North Carolina's tenure offer and instead take a faculty position (with tenure) at Howard University. She will be joined at Howard by journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Hannah-Jones—a Pulitzer Prize recipient—expressed frustration with the drawn-out tenure battle at UNC, citing what she believed to be political opposition to her work and discrimination against her race and gender.

An academic year of distance learning has left many graduating seniors with gaps in their learning.
Colleges and empathetic faculty are preparing to assist with extra tutoring, more academic counseling, some changes in courses and, if necessary, a slower teaching pace at first to help students rebuild their academic and social strengths.

After dropping out of college and taking on a dead-end job, Mateusz Haruza says his dream of a career in technology looked dim. He then learned about a fledgling IBM program that pays new workers without college degrees to receive classroom instruction and on-the-job training.
Such recruiting is a relatively new solution for IBM and other companies that generally require bachelor’s degrees for entry-level white-collar workers. But now, strapped for talent, some employers are reconsidering degree requirements and adopting training systems more common in blue-collar trades.

Leaders of City University of New York institutions have long known about the impact of non-tuition costs on low graduation rates among their community college students. They tried to address the challenge in 2007 with the successful launch of the CUNY Accelerated Study in Associate Programs, or ASAP.
The effort, which gives low-income students a comprehensive matrix of financial, academic and personal supports, now serves 25,000 students. The model has since spread to other community colleges across the country, including three in Ohio.